The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-08-03
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The ball game played on the fair ground
on Friday last, between tine Lawton and Paw
Paw clubs resulted in victory for the Wis
itors: score, nineteen TO six. There was a
good attendance, notwithstanding the ex-
treme heat-about 1909 in the shade.
Neither club played as good game as had
been anticipated, owing, perhaps, to the ter
riblei heat. At any rate, the Paw Paws
played a rank game, and don't deny it and
have no excuses to offer, such Gs absence of
players. second nine, unfair umpiring, nor
anything of the kind. IL was their of
day" and that is about the size of it. They
will endeavor to do better next time The
score by innings was as follows
INNINGS. . 3
Lawton / 410 o 3 0-l9
Paw Paw % . o o 0 3 o o. g
Struck out-By Paw Paw 2, by Lawton 3. Base
hits Paw Paw s, Lawton Is. Errors-Paw Paw Il,
Lawton 10. Base on balls Lee and Clancy Hit
10y pitched ball-Briggs, j. Clancy, Hunt and Pow
ell. Umpire Greene.
BASE BALL BANTER.
That musical voice calling "aeout'-at in
tervals, belonged to a Lawton lady.
Strange that a girl brought up on farm
doesn't know what goose egg is!
One lady attributed Paw Paws defeat to
err
One damsel thought Dad" Briggs must
be pretty good pitcher, because he hit the
bat SO often.
The game had scarce begun ere the sus-
ceptible catcher on the Paw Paw side was
obliged to court (plaster).
A Frank Paw Paw miss observed that it
wasn't much of day for Bangs but, not
withstanding the heat it was fair day for
Cole.
He was busily plying his pencil upon his
score card, but when young lady asked him
how the game stood, could only reply by a
deep blush.
81 should think his teeth would get sun
burned" one of the fair sex remarked, calling
attention to the constant smile that illumined
the face of one of the Paw Paw players.
Paw Paw Hunted the leather vigorously,
but the weather being decidedly Hayes-y and
no one being present to Warmer of her
danger. she was stranded on Lee shore at
last
That Iawton man who said he would
give twenty-five cents if the sun would 60
under a cloud" mysteriously disappeared
when Sol veiled his face for a short time and
| has not turned up ceRtS.
| The manager OF the Paw Paw base ball
club says that Claude Long takes the cake
at selling tickets. They do say that he had
the "nerve" to charge blind man for seeing
the ball game on Friday last.
The Paw Paw ball tossers 90 to Gobleville
next Friday, to play with the club at that
place. We notice, by the star, that the
! Gobleyille boys expect to 60 TO Otsego soon,
for the purpose of knocking down "Acorns.
We mistrust they will find it too early in the
season to Gob(b)le "Pawpaws."
Adams great Morrill, show struck our fair
ground last Friday and went home with
Green laurels. broad smile overspread the
face of Lawton's genial captain when Elli-got
safely in, but he smiled on the other side of
his mouth when Elli-got out again. Well.
boys. there is no Love lost, and the Paw Paws
say they won't give up, no matter Howard
the Lawton's pounfthe ball
Our Lawton correspondent designates the
ball players of that town as "sluggers." As
Paw Paw struck out seven of the Lawtons.
while the Lawtons only struck out three of
the home team, we don't understand why
they should be entitled to the name unless il
is because they registered at the Dyckman
House under the names of some of the most
noted sluggers of the league, instead of us
ing their own less renowned cognomens